Re: Memory allocation failed during fsck of large EXT4 filesystem

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Subject: Re: Memory allocation failed during fsck of large EXT4 filesystem
From: Marc Auslander <marcausl@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2021 12:10:00 -0400
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On 7/5/2021 4:30 AM, Reiner Buehl wrote:

Hi all,
I have a corrupt EXT4 filesystem where fsck.ext4 fails with the errormessage:
Error storing directory block information (inode=366740508, block=0,num=406081): Memory allocation failed
/dev/vg_data/lv_mpg: ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *****
e2fsck: aborted

/dev/vg_data/lv_mpg: ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *****
The system has 4GB of memory and a 8GB swap partition. The filesystemhas 7TB. Is there a quick way to enlarge the swap space to helpfsck.ext4 to finish the repair? I do not have any unused partitions buthave space for swap on other filesystems if that is possible.

Are you sure it's not a ulimit issue? Does the ulimit command returnunlimited?

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